Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace

by Ruth O'Brien

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Crippled Justice, the first comprehensive intellectual history of disability policy in the workplace from World War II to the present, explains why American employers and judges, despite the Americans with Disabilities Act, have been so resistant to accommodating the disabled in the workplace. Ruth O'Brien traces the origins of this resistance to the postwar disability policies inspired by physicians and psychoanalysts that were based on the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226616606

ISBN13:9780226616605

Release Date:October 2001

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.94 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Americas Business Business & Finance Business & Investing Economics History Humanities Labor & Employment Labor & Industrial Relations Law

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